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MILVIUS

Volume 7 · 77 words · 1778 Edition

Molvius, or Malvius Pons, a bridge on the Tiber, built by Æmilius Scaurus the censor, in the time of Sylla, at two miles distance from the city, on the Via Flaminia, and repaired by Augustus. From this bridge the ambassadors of the Allobroges were brought back to Rome, by Cicero's management, and made a discovery of Catiline's conspiracy (Sallust.) Near it Maxentius was defeated by Constantine, (Eutropius.) Now called Ponte Mole.

in ornithology, a species of Falco.